PC reboots no warning..

[General Nuisance]

Hey guys my bro's pc has recently started rebooting for no reason.. The last time he was playing a single player game.. The first time he was playing online bfv and he made someone mad and then his pc rebooted...

ever since then it just restarts for no reason at all... no warning it just reboot's (windows doesn’t go through the reboot process it just shuts off..)

I have tried everything I could think of..

Virus scan
Adware/spyware scan
HD defrag and Sector fix
checked bios for over heat reboot option (it didnt have one)

and a few other things..

This is getting on our nerves especially when we are playing games together...

any ideas?

[Steve]

try this > http://www.novahq.net/forum/showthre...?threadid=7718

[General Nuisance]

lol i must be blind... sorry..

ill try that and see what happens..

sorry for posting before i read and using the Search thing.. *thinking of panthers post where he used the search button like 50 times*

[Scott]

also check out this thread:

http://www.novahq.net/forum/showthre...?threadid=5293

this used to happen to me alot also.. I honestly think it has to do with the volts going to the cpu and/or ram.. Also think it has to do with the ps not giving a steady current..

once i replaced the ps to a bigger one (Now running 500w), and upped the core and vcore volts in the BIOS the problem is gone.

I have fixed 3 freezing/rebooting computers of my own like this so I can't think of any other thing...

[General Nuisance]

ok thanks..

[Rampage.]

i had this problem, bad motherboard, computer shutted off everytime i played a game

[IcIshoot]

Originally posted by ®ampage
i had this problem, bad motherboard, computer shutted off everytime i played a game

Same here. had 2 compacitors blow on the board, 2 others swelled up and almost blew.

Also, my friend had this problem. Turned out to be that his video card was overheating (fan came loose or something like that).


IcI

[General Nuisance]

Originally posted by ®ampage
i had this problem, bad motherboard, computer shutted off everytime i played a game

Very good possibility

Same here. had 2 capacitors blow on the board, 2 others swelled up and almost blew.

Also, my friend had this problem. Turned out to be that his video card was overheating (fan came loose or something like that).


IcI

The GFX card is new


i would say motherboard is very likely... its a few years old and it crashed again last night with no errors it just quit...

[IcIshoot]

just curious, what is the manufacturer and model of the motherboard?

IcI

[Hellfighter]

try to see if the The GFX card has any new driviers release, it maybe new to you but there still maybe new drivers for it.

what is the make and stock number of it, be sides who made it.
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by the way if the system crash? OMG do a scandisk check to fix any error even if it not list any at all do it.

its a must do thing:

start>Run> type in: chkdsk /F /R C:

[if you have more then one HHD hookup leave the C: out]

a new windows will come up press Y-Key hit enter, now restart system.

this time it will do a scan of the HHD and it will double check it.

reboot:
1x) first time it will do scandisk and fix error.
2x) it will double check it and give a clean message.
3x) it will restart system back to desktop.

you may get a message system has crash need to send a error message to mircosoft about it let it do that.

[General Nuisance]

Originally posted by icishoot
just curious, what is the manufacturer and model of the motherboard?

IcI

ECS K7???

Originally posted by Chief ADFP
try to see if the The GFX card has any new driviers release, it maybe new to you but there still maybe new drivers for it.

what is the make and stock number of it, be sides who made it.
===========================================
by the way if the system crash? OMG do a scandisk check to fix any error even if it not list any at all do it.

its a must do thing:

start>Run> type in: chkdsk /F /R C:

[if you have more then one HHD hookup leave the C: out]

a new windows will come up press Y-Key hit enter, now restart system.

this time it will do a scan of the HHD and it will double check it.

reboot:
1x) first time it will do scandisk and fix error.
2x) it will double check it and give a clean message.
3x) it will restart system back to desktop.

you may get a message system has crash need to send a error message to mircosoft about it let it do that.

I always get the new drivers regardless

its a nvidia 5200+ and i know about the power issues with it. this pc has a 450 watt ps

and as i said in original post i done scan disk.

[Hellfighter]

you should do the scandisk every time it crash anyways.

will i don't know you have try this or not.

[General Nuisance]

yep... steve told me about that.. i didnt know about that til he told me..

[Hellfighter]

Originally posted by General Nuisance
hey guys i just found a program called ccleaner its great it saved me 1GB of space by deleting temp files and log files that are never used... AND fixed 52 reg. entry problems... and best of all ITS FREE!

its small it does the job well and its free can you ask for more?

http://www.ccleaner.com/

you know what i think you and your brother ran on both your system and deleted files the system needed even if they was temp files this could be making you have trouble now with rebooting. system is crashing.

sorry only way to fix it is re-instill windows back in. you can re-instill windows without redoing HHD by the way. you would need to UN-instill all the updates first then reinstall windows after that point.

CCleaner it can put them files back it remove can't it?

[General Nuisance]

nope it started happening way before that its just gotten worse..

he did get a error last night though. now instead of windows restarting it closes the program and brings up those stupid tell microsoft boxes (like there gonna do anything about it)

it has something to do with dx9 i tried reinstalling and it didn't work.

[Hellfighter]

if you send in the error message you may get a notice in 1min back with a fix for it. gee it do help a lot.

my "Nero InCd" use to give me a error a lot hell the system would crash, but after windows sent in the error message to microsoft a new box pop-up telling how to fix it. basic it send me to a page [Notice had a link in it] i gone there and read what i needed to do to fix it.

next time send the error message to them. you may get shock totally may not be a virus or the game at all. it could be something other.

[Steve]

Originally posted by General Nuisance
those stupid tell microsoft boxes

it will actually tell you what caused the problem, usually xxxxxx.exe

but it could be something else running. eiter way it will tell you what the problem is.

u need to click 'view content of report' i think. it will say at the top of teh box what it is.